Democrats Want Fetterman ‘on a Pike'

The price of dissenting from orthodoxy in Washington these days is high—if you're a Democrat. If you're a Republican who supports higher taxes or Big Labor, you're hailed as a free-thinker. But a Democrat who dissents on Israel becomes Public Enemy Number 2 after Donald Trump. That's the treatment now descending on Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, as former aides and fellow Democrats feed stories intended to drive him from the Senate. Sources who decline to be identified say he neglects semiofficial duties such as constituent meetings, committee hearings and public funerals, but that he appears on cable-news shows with regularity (including, mortal sin, Fox News). Readers can decide if these are serious offenses among the cast of dedicated saints known as the U.S. Congress. Mr. Fetterman's real offense is political. He's a consistent progressive on taxes, healthcare, climate, guns, social issues and much else. But he vocally supports Israel in its war against Hamas and Hezbollah, backs President Trump's war in Iran, and rejects such progressive-left follies as abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and defunding the police. Such heterodoxy probably benefits Democrats by making their party seem less crazy. A lot of thanks he gets—his Democratic colleagues evidently want to ruin him.